The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-02-12
CONGRESSIONAL SUMN4RY.
Senate,

S6T ,00O, 900 OF cotton tax collected. Bills
from committees were reported and placed
on the calendar AS follows: For the con-
struction OF building for the use of the
officers OF the House of Representatives; for
an additional associate Justice OF the su-
preme court in Mexico; authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Red
River of the North; also across the Missis-
sippi River near Chattanooga. Mr.. Van
Wyck offered a resolution calling on the
secretary OF the treasury for a report as to
whether any national banks are loaning
money and discounting notes, requiring
payment in gold coin only, Adopted.
TUESDAY, Feb. IA message from the
President was laid before the Senate Veto
ing bill granting a pension to Margaret
Dunlap, OF Missouri the ground OF the
Presidents objection being that the death
OF the soldier Cfor which the pension is
given) was not caused in the line OF duty,
but in a quarrel with comrade. Bills
were reported from committees and placed
on the calendar as follows: For the
location and establishment OF home for
disabled volunteer soldiers west of the
Rocky Mountains; to reimburse the de.
postors OF the Freedmen's Savings and
Trust Company for losses incurred by the
failure OF that company; to credit and pay
to the several states and territories and to
the District of Columbia monies collected
for direct taxes under the act of August 5,
1861; for boat railway around the OBJ
structions at the dels aud falls
on the Columbia River. The creden-
tials OF Algernon S. Paddock as
senator from Nebraska for the term begin
ming March 4, 1887, were presented and
placed on file. The Senate then resumed
the consideration OF the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill. Mr.. Mcmillan offered an
amendment appropriating $4,000 for the
purchase OF Carl Gutherz's picture entitled
''Farming in Dakota" Adopted. Mr..
Spooner offered an amendment appropri-
ating $4,000 for the public building
at La Crosse, Wis, in addition to $780,
900 heretofore appropriated. Agreed to.
Mr.. Morgan offered an amendment in
structing the secretary OF the treasury to
submit to Congress-, next session, estimates
OF expenses for establishing a permanent
station on the coast OF Alaska for the sur
vey OF the bays, inlets and principal rivers
on that coast. Agreed to. Without dis
posing OF the bill the Senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, Feb, 2.-The Senate re
sumed consideration OF the sundry civil
bill, Senator Allison making set speech
on the bill. Mr.. Mitchell (Ore.) offered an
amendment appropriating 100000 for
lighthouse at Cape Meeres, Ore. Agreed
to. The bill was then reported from the
committee of the whole to the Senate. The
general appropriation for the survey of
public lands was increased from $50, 900 to
$75, 900 and the bill was then passed. The
Senate, after some discussion, passed the
House bill appropriating $4,000 for
special distribution OF seeds in the drought
stricken district OF Texas. The House bill
to bridge the Missouri River between Oma-
ha and Council Bluffs, was reported from
the committee on commerce with amend
ments. Passed. The Senate also passed
the bill authorizing the removal OF the
quarantine station from Ship Island, Miss.
1t appropriates Sac, 900.
THURSDAY, Jan. ga resolution offered
last session by Mr.. Ingalls, to discharge the
committee on pensions from the further
consideration of the bill removing disab bill
ties for arrears from honorably discharged
soldiers was taken up and Mr.. Ingalls, said
his object was to have the bill brought
before the Senate for action. The
resolution was agreed to-yeas, 81;
nays-26, and the bill placed on the calen-
Tar. Senator Sawyer's credentials for the
full term, commencing March 4 next, were
presented and placed on file. The Gre
dentIals OF Senator Whitthorne, showing
his election by the Legislature'of Tennessee
for the unexpired term ending March 4
next, were also presented, and he
took the oath OF office under them
up to this time he has held his
seat under the governors appointment
The post-otiice appropriation bill was re-
ported by the Senate committee on appro-
priations to-day. Mr.. Frye's proposition
for the foreign mail service is changed so as
to appropriate 100000 for the carriage
OF mails to Brazil, the Argentine Republic,
Uruguay and Paraguay. The contracts for
the service are made subject to the ap-
proval of Congress.
FRIDAY, Feb. 4.--The Senate, by vote
OF 80 to IA, passed the railroad attorneys
bill considerably modified by an amend
n1ent offered by Mr.. Hoar. The amend
ment provides that members of Congress
shall not be debarred from acting as coun-
sci for subsidized railroads in cases where
the United States is not party to the
suit. The Senate then passed a bill
to credit and pay to the several
states and territories and tie Dis
trict OF Columbia all moneys collected
under the direct tax levied by the act OF
August 5, 1851. 1t remits and reinquishes
all oil the tax still due, and it appropriates
sufficient amount to reimburse the state
for all moneys found due to them under
the provisions OF this act-to be paid to
their respective governors: Provided, that,
where the taxes have been collected from
citizens, either directly or by sale of prop
erty, the amount shall be held in trust for
them or their legal representatives by the
respective states.
SATURDAY, Feb. 5.-The bill to ineorpor-
ate the Atlantic & Pacific Ship Railway
Company known also as the Eads Tehuan-
tepec bilD, and Mr.. Morgan spoke in its
favor, but, on suggestion OF Senator
Hoar, suspended his remarks till Monday,
when he will again take the floor. The Sem
ate then proceeded to the consideration OF
the Indian appropriation bill. This bill,
which contains ffty-two printed pages, was
passed without q word OF discussion and
with no more delay than was consistent
with its rapid reading. On motion OF Mr..
Allison, the House bill to authorize the
construction OF q high wagon and foot
passenger bridge over the Mississippi
River between East Dubuque, H., and
Dubuque, Ia. vas taken up and passed.
The conference report on the bill for pub
lie building at Chattanooga, Tenn, was